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Thank you, Peter. Thank you so much Ecing But also, now that you are official, you are able to wield the awesome power of judging and scorekeepering. So as you start your reign, what do you want people to know about you? That I am the most decorated black scorekeeper in weight weight history So You w to be the first contestant of the Alzo era, giveive us a call. The number is one tri eight wait waight. That's one eight nine, two, four, eight, nine, two four. Let's welcome our first listener contestant. Howi you? Wait wait, Don't tell me. Hi, this is Jenny Stout, calling him from Salt Lake City, Utah. Salt Lake City is a fabulous place Speaking of winter Olympics, what do you do there I support graduate students at a local university and I am a busy mom of two kids, but most importantly, I am doing this to honor my late father who introduced me to the show and taught me to love andPR. Oh, that's so wonderful G to here. Well, Jenny, it's great to have you on the show. Let me introduce you to our panel this week from Austin. firstirst up, a comedian and fashion designer, whose new fashion project, House Cardi by Michelle Wolfe just dropped, it's Brian Babela Next one of Vulture's comedians you should and will know of twenty twenty five. It's Rachel Coster. Hi Jenny. Thank you, Hi J And host of the hit podcast Breaking Bread with Tom Papa, it's Tom Papa. Hi So Jenny welcome to the show. You're going to play, who's Alzo, this time. Alzo Slate is going to read you three quotations from this week's news. If you can correctly identify or explain two of them, you will win our prize Any voice from our show you might choose for your voicemail. Are you ready to go I sure hope so I've been cramming all day. You have All right, well here is your first quote, and as I'm sure you'll recognize from Azo's imitation, it is vanilla ice I don't even vote, so I don't even care. I'll go play for Putin if you want Warm body vanilla eyes was one of the few performers not to drop out of a concert on the National Mall celebrating what? America's two hundred fiftieth birthday. Yes. That's exactly right for their Big party on the National Mall, the White House proudly announced a lineup of American music icons like Vanilla Ice and Brett Michaels from the band Poison. Seriously, it was like they just wrote down all the names from the Grammy's in Memorium reel. So is the is the is this tied to The cage match that's gonna to happen on the lawn. Oh, it's all part of the big festivity. That's all the cage match, they've been building this thing on the White House lawn to have a UFC basically a cage match. Yeah. That's going to be on flagday, which, oh, by the way, what a coincidence is also President Trump's eightieth birthday Let me just say this about that UFC thing If you look at aerial footage, yes, of the White House. Yes, it looks like what they thought the White House was going to look like when the Obamas were there It look It looks like breaking bad meth lab house. Yeah. With the construction of the ballroom that you have seen, it looks very like Air Force one is on some blocks. It looks Yeah. It looks wild. It like it feels like when you have a house guest and you can't kick them out and they're ruining everything and you're like, we'll just clean it when they're gone. Right All right, Jenny, here is your next quote. It's about a hut new director in Hollywood He got his start at age nine, posting videos of himself playing Minecraft. That was Variety magazine talking about twenty year old Caine Parsons, one of the hot newew Hollywood directors, who got their start making videos for what platform YouTu? YouTube. Y. it. Okay. The horror movies backrooms made by mister Parsons, an obsession, both made by former YouTubers, are dominating the box office. They gross to over a hundred million dollars on their opening weekend. It's so wonderful to see theaters filled again with young people, all of whom had to jump up every four minutes to hit the skip add button on the screen. It's hard to get people out to theater these days. Yeah. it's hard to it's hard to get people to the movie theater to buy fifty dollarars popcorn It's tough. And yet they have managed it by giving these young filmmakers an opportunity to make real movies. Have any of you seen these movies or did you follow their careers on YouTube prior? I haven't seen them, but I have two daughters who are in their early twenties. so I know enough about them. What do you want to know Did they come home and tell you all about it? Yeah, they're really scary. They showed me the trailer for the back room ones There's a lot of hidden undertones. hidden undertones are very hous. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The directors of these two films are twenty six and twenty years old. That's half the age of Martin Scrorsese if you add them together. And the director of this movie, Back Rooms, he's twenty. And the movie is based on this series of YouTube shorts he started making when he was sixteen He has a good chance to be the first big Hollywood star to become a hasb been before he can legally rent a car. Wow. Yeah. They are talented. I mean, when you when my daughters they just, you know I've been waiting for this moment to happen because young people are so into the tech and they're so on top of it. and now that they can make legit films out of it, makes perfect sense. My daughters within thirty seconds of taking a picture are able to take that picture, zoom in on my fat neck and make that deep picture. Right Be things that count. skills, mag. You're gonna to escape Hollywood. Yeah Your last quote is an official statement from the Tampa Bay Rays Baseball team Tarps off. Let's go. So tarps off. It's the hottest thing in major League baseball right now. When you hear tarPps off and you're in the stands, you are supposed to do what? Oh geez. take off their shirts? You take off their shirts. yees.ness. Of course, taking your shirt off, that's startarps off. What started as a quirky thing Among a few fans has spread across major League baseball with hundreds of fans at each game piling it into sections and bleachers all taking off their shirts, waving them over their heads. Some people are praising this trend as being body positive as in. I am positive you guys should put your shirts back on. Because I'll be honest with you, this is an opportunity for whatever. Male sports bra situation. Yeah. It was a lot of like white man titties out there. Nothing wrong with that, y'all Does it help the team win when everybody takes their off Apparently, yeah, that's what happened. It happened in St. Louis, the Cardinals game and these guys started doing it and apparently the Cardinals rallied. And one, and everybody's sort of saying, o, it is the guysys yelling and taking off their shirts s. The announc was like, oh momentum's shifting out all those areriolis. The momentum is shifting They'reting up in stingol. After that happened, by the way, the Cardinals's manager, this is true, bought out a section of the bleachers personally and offered to take it free to anyone who would come and agree to take their shirts off. And you know, manager' season is going great when he's trying to distract everybody with look, naked fans up there What are the women fans doing? Are they Can they do this too? To my knowledge, and I'm not sure, women have not yet participated in this trend. Why Feminism was. Feminism need says step it up, okay, so Yeah, they should do they don't want the team to win Also, how did Jenny do in our quiz? Jenny made her father proud. Three out of three. Gatations Jenn This so much the brand Thank you so much, Deny. takeake care Right now, panel, it is time for you to answer some questions about this week's news. Brian's summer blockbuster season is here and a new study finds movies are more likely to feature a w in them than a woman over sixty. An animal? Yes, a talking animal. Yeah. According to a new study, Hollywood films are four times as likely to star a talking animal. than they are to star a woman over sixty People say this is because of sexism and aggeism, but maybe The talking animals are just more talented. I mean Mbe the reason they cast a giraffe in the new movie about Eleanor Roosevelt is that it had the best audition. That joke would have had to be so good for this audience to have gone with you You were in there. were there hang didn't happen. I just saw Meryl Streep just shaking her head. Yeah I kind of get it because animals have never asked me when I'm gonna have a child or told me that I'm getting a little tudy So as much as I know that when I'm a sixty plus year old woman, I want to have a job, I know that maybe it's okay So youre saying women over sixty are a little judgy on younger women. To me personally, I've experienced that at times, but they also deserve rights. I love you guys and I think what you're doing out there is amazing don't because it stressing me out Coming up, don't forget your sunscreen. 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We're playing this week with Tom Papa, Brian Babylon, and Rachel Coster. And here again is your host at the Bass concert hall in Austin, Texas, Peter Sager. Thank you Al. Thanks everybody It's time for the Wightwight, don't tellell me Bluff the listener Game callall one Aple eight Wightwight to player game in the air H, you're on weightwight Don't tellell me. Hi, Peter, this is Mickey Clk from Northfield, Minnesota. Oh, Northfield, I know it well. homeome to some great universities and of course the Northfield Raid. That's when if I'm not mistaken, Jesse James ended his career as an outlaw by thinking he can take a bunch of Gentle Minnesotans and got his butt kicked. Yeah, they celebrate that every September, the defeat of Jesse James Day. I've gone a few times and I've learned You should bring headphones because the reenactments get really loud. Oh, sure I I just love the idea of like Minnesotans all getting their guns, o, I guess we're gonna have to shoot you now Oh yeah, we're gonna have to shoot you in the face. Anyway, sorry, Mickey, it's great to have you with us. You're gonna play the game in which you have to tell truth from fiction. Also, what is Mickey's topic A summer twist. So summer of course has its classic entertainments and leisure time activities going to the beach, Alfresco dining, sweating through your shirt, even though all you're doing is alfresco dining. but this week we read about a strange little tweak. on a quintessential summer experience. Our panel is going to tell you about it. Pick the one who's telling the truth and win the weight weighter of your choice on your voicemail, includluding, by the way, I should say Are you ready to play I'm ready. All right, first, let's hear from Tom Pop Anyone who thinks that using insect repellent will save their summer may want to listen up or better yet, stay inside Research now suggests that the chemical dat, widely used in insect repellents may actually be attracting the mosquitoes In other words, the mosquitoes are learning through experience that where there's deep, there's the possibility of a blood meal What's a blood meal? You To a mosquito, you are nothing but a walking, talking bag of blood Researchers are impressed that mosquitoes can smell dat with their food and still want to eat it. in the same way that humans can stand alongside drunk, sweaty tourists at a Las Vegas buffet, but still go back for seconds Turns out that mosquito repellent. is actually a mosquito attractant. Your next summer surprise comes from Rachel Coster A of last summer's dangerous heat closed pools across the South The fool supply company in Dry Creek, Texas has taken matters into their own hands To prevent dehydration amongst swimmers, Susan Day of Susan's Pool Solutions has replaced the water in over forty public pools with blue Gatorade. The idea to fill the pool with blue raspberry flavored electrolytes came to susason after last summer's heat wave forced the pool to close Kids were fainting left and right, said lifeguard Clayton O'Hara They were going down like dominoes. It was really stressful, but brought a lot of the lifeguards closer together. He said, smiling at Courtney Smith There is for sure still chlorine in the water, and the gatorate is making everyone really sticky when they get out, but no one has fainted yet this year, said Courtney Susan Day seems unfazed by the potential setbacks of her creation When asked about her concerns regarding people urinating in the pool, she provided no comment, but she did scratch her head and start texting immediately after the question was asked. Preventing dehydration in swimmers by filling the swimming pools themselves with gator rain. Your last story of a swerve in summer comes from Brian Babylon Matthew Riley, an engineer from Redmond, Washington, came to Southern California to get some sun He'd left knowing the exact date his startup would fail The woman who told him goes by the name of Miss Molly For the last two summers, Miss Molly has worked from a folding chair near Tower fourteen, reading prophecies in the sunburns of strangers Berne tells me something, Miss Molly said. Mostly bad things. It's summer Nobody's Burnn says great news Her hits are polling up peeling shoulder That leads to divorce Burnton knows that's a shady contractor on its way A man with a flawless farmer's hand, you get three words. You already know A local dermatologist said it's deeply irresponsible and also somehow ninety percent accurate. Miss Molly asks only two things, respect the burn and apply aloe after. But she has one rule, she will not read her own back She caught a glimpse of her back in the mirror one time. And she quietly said, some futures aren't yours to look at So which of these It was an unusual twist we found on a summer standard in the news. Was it from Tom Papa, the amazing discovery that all that mosquito repellent we put on actually is attracting the mosquitoes From Rachel Coster, a woman who's devised a way to keep people from getting dehydrated while at the pool by filling the pool itself with Gatorate, or from Brian Babylon, a psychic in Venice Beach, California who can accurately tell your future just from your sunburn. Which of these is the story of summer we found in the news I think I'm going to go with the first You're gonna go with the first one, Tom's story about all that mosquito repellent attracting the mosquitoes. All right, that's your choice. We spoke to someone who is very familiar with the real story I think we can safely say that mosquitoes are smarter than perhaps some people give them credit for That was Niicola Davis. She is a science correspondent at The Guardian talking about mosquitoes actually coming to love your bug spray becausecause it means you're available. Congratulations, Mickey. You got it right. You figured out that Tom was telling the truth What for Tom, and of course, you have won our prize, the voice of anyone you may choose from our show. Congratulations, Mickey. Thank you. Thank you so much for playing with us today. I know. Take care And now the game we call not my job. Alana Myeers Taylor was a star on her collegiate softball team, but didn't make the woman's national team. So she decided, as many ball players do, to move to bob sledding instead. Turned out to be a good choice as over five different winter Olympics, she became the most decorated American bobs sleder ever. She lives now right here in Austin with her family and we are delighted Welcome her now, Aan of Mers T. Welcome to Wait Wait. You came out wearing your gold medal here on stage. Do you'd like just wear it around wherever you go? You know, onlynly when I want to pull something on my husband, you know tell me, he's gotta take out all the garbage or anything that you pull it out and like There go. pulling rank, pulling and rank. So Alana, we had you on the show in twenty twenty two, back in the pandemic, att that time you were living in Georgia. The other thing that happened since last we spoke to you was that you went on to the twenty twenty six Olympics in Milan Cortina in Italy and you became the gold medalist in the new sport of Mobob And all of your fans here in Austin and internationally when I say, what is a monobob? So monobob, Bob said has traditionally had the two person and the four man disciplines. Monobob is just a single person in the sled. So we push, run, jump in, and then we're in charge of navigating it all by ourselves. So no help this time. Right Did it start People got tired of their teammates on they're like, you know what? Ill get you guys. I'm on a monobot that I don't know What's amazing is so Bobsedding has been around for a long time over a century, right? And it took this long to figure out, well, maybe just one person could do it themselves. Because we discussed this the last time we were on the show, the other people, either the one pusher or the three depending All they do is push the sled, which is important. and then they get in and do nothing. Y. Do nothing. So preferably preferably. If they do something, something has gone desperately wrong. And speaking as a driver You're happy to be rid of that worry. Yeah, no backseat drivers. You don't have to worry about anybody to go There's nothing worse than liking a run that could get you the championship and like one of your pushers is like, can we stop? I got to use the bathroom. Yeah Just the worst. Just absolutely the worst The other thing I found out about you since last wee spoke to you is that You were one of the first elite athletes to compete against, I should say, the first female elite athlete to compete against men in a straightforward competition. Could you tell me when that happened and what exactly that was? Yeah, so as I mentioned earlier, women have only had two disciplines. There's a two man and a four man and women have only been able to compete at the Olympic level in the two person So They finally allowed us to compete in the four person and I was like, Yes, let's do this. Let's get another shot to win an Olympic medal. And I competed in a Fion discipline actually with my husband. So I was the first woman to make the US men's national team in a Fan sled with my husband. w So it wasn't just So it wasn't just women against men. It was women and manen against women and men. it was like whatever mixture people found to be most effective for their team, right? It could have been a mixture, but it was largely woman pilots with a male crew behind them and then competing against men. Really? Yeah Oh wow I'm going to A lot of stereotypes come to mind Did the men who were pushing kind of want to drive No, they were pretty happy for me just to behind me and just to support me. And I think it helps when your husband's back there. He's gonna keep them in mind. Really? That's right. And I've seen your husband. He's pretty swoll. Yeah. He's like the conditioning coach. He doubles as my bodyguard too... But that's an amazing date night though Hey, like, baby, let's go ahead and get this metedal right quick. You know what I'm saying? I go to You know, that's what I was thinking. L, do you just get dressed in the outfits just for fun? No, but it is the perfect date night because you can't bring the kids. So you know, the kids can't be the sled, so you know, it's me time. Is there us time? Is there beef between mono Mo Bob and like the Louge people Is it like is it sort like the Jetsm the Sharks like Lose versus Mob Bob? No, actually we get along with losers really well. but Los is like losersers. Los is like the country club of sports and Bob s's more M more blue collarsking. Wait a minuteait, I answer I know. Okay. So you mentioned you had kids. You and your husband have two kids now raising them here in Austin In fact, is it right that you won one of your gold medals at Wne Ompics while you were pregnant? Yes. Yep. ye. Didn't know it at the time So the botlet has ive people In a way. It was a fun wor person bob. It was a two person bob sled but yes, technically had threeree people. And I know it's rather difficult to do here in Austin, but have you ever taken your kids sledding Haven't taken them sledding, but the nanny has. Not in Austin, but the bestounds very lougy. yeah. Very lgy Loozie, Moozie. I can't just be on a normal sled. Like I have a bob sled. I can't just be on a radio flyer, That's reallyally? Yeahs. You don't think you could do that? Yeah, no. I'm not getting behind any sled. I'm not driving Fair enough. Do you ever do you ever get free food if you wear your metal? Well actually when you were with us before, you told us that won your first gold medal, which was in the I want to say the twenty ten Olympics. Yes, Right.onze. You won a bronze medal. And you were like, you were so young and hungry and I guess maybe thinking that was impressive. Remind us if that worked. It did work. It worked. It's got a free frosty at Wendy's.. You were much more established. You're a legend in the sport, a record setter A Do you still try that Havingt tried it because I think the stigma with the gold medal is people think you can pay for a meal. So ex made gold. And they expect you to tip well. so no more free food. Oh yeah, I put that gold in the way room. Oh yeah. You take off the gold, youre takeaking out the old bronze so you can get, you know. Do you ever wear gym so people get off the equipment for you? That's good try, but I definitely will try that because that will be usually there's a lot of lines. I train in public gyms, train in the local rec club. so there is always a wait for gym equipment. so I definitely need to try that anymore. Alana, it is great to have you with us again This time, we've asked you here to play a game we're calling Sider Met Slider. So you are a champion of the sliding sports. We thought we'd ask you about the original sllider White Castle haamburgers answer two to three questions you will win a prize w one of our listeners, the voice anyone they may choose in their voicemail. Are you ready to play? Let's go. All right. Alzo, who is Alana playing for This time Crystal Craig right here in Austin, Texas Very exciting And I just want to ask, do I know you're competitive, but I also know you're used to routines. Would you like to do this competition with your husband crouching behind you? Yes. Okay. He's way better at trivia than I ever. Okay. well here we go. So here's your first question. When the first White Castle restaurant opened in Wichitaw, Kansas in nineteen twenty one, the founders wanted to establish with the potential customers a very specific reputation. They wanted to be known as what? A, the most pro monarchy restaurant be the restaurant with the world's smallest food or see the most sanitary restaurant in town Oh gosh. U I really haven't been to White Castle in a long time. So I'm gonna go with C. You're right. That was the same This was only a few years after Upton Sinclair's book, the jungle had come out, Nobbody wanted to eat ground beef. They were afraid of what was in it. so the white walls and the stainless steel of the White Castles were supposed to assure you of its cleanliness. Here's your next question. Once a year, White Castle goes all out to celebrate a particular holiday, which is it A? In December, they offer the meat Menora where you can get eight sliders One for each night of Hanuka T on Valentine's Day, White Castle becomes Love Castle, a fine dining restaurant complete with tablecloths, candles, and romantic music. with which you can enjoy your meal or see on Halloween One in ten burgers has a razor blade hitting Well, since I heard a couple of tears for B, I'm gonna go with B. That's right. love castle. This is a huge thing Tenss of thousands of people show up at White Castle for Valentine's Day. You can also get the discounted sloppy Joe S packs for some reason Here's your last question, you go for perfect as you have been in pretty much everything else. White Castle has innovated to keep up with modern times, as in which of these. A, thanks to a partnership with Vitamix, you can now get any White Castle burger as a smoothie. The one hundred locations will soon have their burgers flipped by a short order cook robot named Fllippy Or see, they're catering to Botox enthusiasts by promising, quote, We're sure there's botulism in our food. All those are real. Possibilities? I will agree that they are possibilities. Okay. Uh That would be Y fllippy the robot Pre soon your white Castle burger will be untouched by human hands until it arrives in yours. Alzo, how did Alana do in our quiz? She gives a weight weight,on't tell me gold medal. three out of three. Alana Myers Taylor is a six time world champion Bs letter who won gold at this year's Olympic Games in Milan. Alana Myeers Taylor, thank you so much for joining us here on W evening T Just a minute we finally find the hidden Valley in our listener, Limberrick Challenge. callall one eight Waitwit to join us in the air and we'll be back in a minute with more Waitwit don't tell me from NPR This message comes from Middlesex County, New Jersey. 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We're playing this week with Brian Babylon, Tom Popa, and Rachel Coster. And here again is your hope at the vass concert mall in Austin, Texas, Peter Seago. Thank you, Alzone, just a minute find out if Alzo was lying when he put PhD in limericks in his resume our lister Limb Challenge if you'd like to play, give us call at one triple eight weaight. That's one eight nine two, four eight nine two four.ight now, panel some more questions for you from the week' newews. Rachel, Club Med is about to open its first ever beach resort on the coast of South Africa, but there's one little problem. They have to figure out a way what away from their guests. U the History Yeah. It very funny. You can't min and black your way out of this onening j. Sorry. No, no. I'll give you a hint. At this resort, Jaws isn't just a movie night. Sharks. Yes. Sharks is the answer Mandinating shharks. This will be the very first club Med beach resort on the coast of South Africa, and that's because the coast is home to three different species off man eating sharks. Ad also explains the new resort's ad campaign wake up to beachside yoga, then a surfing lesson. Then survivors have a drink, M. I think that the sharks that are there should be able to stay there and not be pushed away. Well, that's in fact what's going on is they're like, okay, these sharks here who are trying to open this beach resort A lot of people are saying, well, you shouldn't do that. In fact, a lot of people are saying you should just let the sharks alone. In fact, there is one proposal to put up a shark net, right? But environmentalists say, no, that doesn't work. Those nets they just kill other endangered species. And sometimes the sharks get stuck inside the net which makes them more angry. Right. And then the sharks are like,, I bet we' in re Basically we're in prison now, but at least the food's good. Yeah. They're seeing a clubmen sign. all you can eat. Yeah, pretty much. All inclusion. Alllusion. Rachel, great news if you're jealous of the Amish. This week we heard about a new concept where people are encouraged to take a rumpringer After what U C I please have a hint? You may college, justust college. Im sorry, you're saying College high school. After college. after high school? no, no, no, that'sairly typical. this After their first year at their internship No you need to take a load off after exact. It's after their first thing, but that thing usually ends unexpectedly or not what they wanted it to happen. I'll give. divorce. Yes, divorce. You got it. Sorry. A writer in the cut is recommending anyone who was recently divorced to take a divorce rumpringer, quote unquote where you do whatever you want for a while after your divorce. It's a groundbreaking idea. People normally are so measured and regular after a divorce. I think that the Amish teach a valuable lesson, but it should just be that after a divorce, just turn your own butter. Do something kind of simple keep all your clothing. You don't have to be a slut at fifty five. Make a bunch of But over your toast that you bake on your own. It's simple and then your kids won't have their hearts broken again That was That was a beautiful That was a moment to sort of was beautiful. So you think about to feel for you. Yeah. That was really nice. Yeah Really, they're just slapping a kind of fun label on something we all know people do and they shouldn't. It's like, yeah, you're not taking a sabbatical for personal growth. You just didn't go to work for a year Coming up,'s lightightning Film in the Blank. But first, it's the game where you have to listen the ryme If you'd like to play on air, call or leave a message at one hundredple eight, wait, wait. That's one eight nine, two four eight nine two four. You can catch us most weeks back at the Studor Baker Theater in downtown Chicago or come see us on the road. We'll be at the Riverside Theater in Milwaukee on july ninth and in Sonoma County in northern California on july thirtieth for tickets and info To all our live events go to NpRpresents. org. Hier own weight weight don't tell me Hi, this is Sebastian, calling from Mendon Vermont. Mend in Vermont. Okaykay, what do you do there I am a student suuccess addvisor at Vermont State University's Castleton campus and as of sixteen days ago, I am a new father. Whoa ah Wow. do how do you have time to like call into radio shows I have a wonderfully supportive partner and wife who knows this is a lifelong dream of mine. And so she's making this possible for me Wow. is lovely. Wow. That's a love language. Well, congratulations. Mazltov and welcome to the show. Sebastian, you're going to play our Limerick challenge. Alzo Slade for the first time as our official Judge Squarekeeper. and Rim resist Limic reader He's going to read you three news related limerickics with the last word of phrase missing, your job, fill that in. two times out of three. do that, you will win our prize. You ready to go I am ready. All right, here is your first Limerick, Alzo To woo buyers for homes, our plot thickens. They see country life, their pulost quickens. Their interest is spurred with egg laying birds We are selling new homes with some Chick Yes Chickens luxury homes are now being sold with chickens and chicken coops included. You can instantly live the Instagram fantasy of gathering your own sustainable eggs from your chickens for breakfast and then in the afternoon euthanizing them when they all get bird flood Chickens are fun. Do you have chickens? Have you had chickens No, I never had chickens, but I grew up in New Jersey and my dad would take us into the city to see a thing called the dancing Chicken And it was in arcade booth and there'd be a chicken in there and you'd put a quarter in and they'd play music and the chicken would start to dance. When did you grow up? nineteen twenty six? Oh, come see the dancing chicken.' That was a fun time for the papa family until we found out that the quarter actually turned on the music and also electrified the floor. No Yeah And we cried all the way home to New Jersey. Yeah. Anyway, wonder what that chicken's doing now Not much. Here is your next limerick, Sebastian. There's a calendar Rome has released of frock wearing good looking beasts with color and stow They're just acting a role The models they used are not Priests. Priests, yes, this week, we were shocked to learn that the guy on the cover of the famous sexy priest calendar on sale and shops all over Rome, Italy is actually not a priest. He's just a regular guy. Well He's not regular. He's hot. So this calendar in question, you've seen them if you've been to Rome, it's come into the spotlight because people have discovered that several of the twelve priests in it are not actually members of the clergy. It sounds like somebody had the idea, of course, do one hot priest for every month, and they ran out of real ones by the time they got to February But I'm curious on who's into like sexy priest calendars? I can tell you exactly who. Tell me A guy just having a job and believing in something is honestly kind of awesome. I think it would be cute to have like a mix of hot priests, but then like fun priests, you know? Yeah. L personality Yeah, like Yeah, like playing baseball or riding a little pony. Yeah All right, Sebastian, here is your last limerick In Europe, they're going to blanche at our buttermilk sauce avalanche. We will shower the blessing of creamy white dressing. We are preaching the gospel of R Ranch Yes this week, Hidden Valley Ranch announced they were hiring two ranch dressing ambassadors whose job would be to travel around Europe to promote ranch dressing. America's number one cultural export. Peter, this is as you know, I live in Europe like four months out of the year. every time I go to Europe I take some switcher sweet blunts and some ranch dressing in my suitcase every time. Becauseuse they't ranch over there. they don't have ranch. they't have like dairy creamers. So I have like American poison stuff in my suitcase every time. No It's a weird thing to say I live in Europe four months of the year. And I love ranch. Yes,. You're very interesting.eresting I love ranch dressing. I just worry about when the war with Europe starts and we have to pull our ranch ambassadors from the Ranch emmbassy Also, how did Sebastian do in our quiz? Sebastian, the new father can celebrate because he has a perfect score three out of three. Yeah! Congratulations Thank you Thank you so much for play,abathon. takeake care. Thank you, it was a Dreink come trp. Bye. I do tip tip As if them As if they. This message comes from Middlesex County, New Jersey. If you've been thinking about where to grow your business next, Middlesex County, New Jersey should be on your shortlist. It's got a world class workforce, easy access to US. and global markets, and one of the most resilient supply chains in the country forty percent of the US population within a day's drive and you've got every advantage in one place. Visit biz. discovermiddlesx. com to set up a meeting with a business advisor today. Support for NPR and the following message come from Good RX. 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Following a voting on Tuesday, Karen Bass advanced to a runoff in the race for Mayor of Blank Los Angeles Right. This week a cop in Chicago was kept blanking while unpaid medical leave for a knee injury No going horseback riding, lifting five bales of hay and moving a twelve hundred pound dumpster. I we didn't get that one. This week, the San Antoniopurs and New York Kicks faced off in the first two games of the Blank finals. NBA finals R on Thursday, scientists said intense solar storms may mean that the blanks could be visible from twenty three st sl or flares. Yeah, the Northern lights will give that to you. this week, author This week, authorities are warning people to not throw their old car batteries in the trash because they keep blanking They keep exploding quite they keep making the garbage trucks explode Oh Wow. S the chemicals inside your car battery totally safe. they will not catch fire or explode unless of course, you were to squeeze them in a powerful hydraulic press surrounded by a bunch of garbage. W. So exploding. Alo, how did Brian Babylon do in our quiz? He did all right. He got four right for eight points, total look in and the lead. All right Good Rachel. Rachel, you're up next, fill in the bllank. On Wednesday, the House voted to block the administration from ordering more strikes against Blank. Iran. Right on Monday, Trump named a man with no background in intelligence to be the acting director of Blank. FBI. CIA I don't know. National Intelligence Director. This week, paleontologists in China discovered another species of Blank dinosaurs. Right onn Tuesday. Analysts said that the seventy five billion dollars IPO for private space company Blank would be the largest in history. SpaceX. Right? This week, Alaskan Senator Dan Sullivan learned he'd be facing off against a man named Blank in the Republican primary grizly bear. No, a man whose name is also Dan Sullim. On Monday, Martin Scorsesee faced a backlash after saying he supported the use of blank during pre production. AI. Right. This week police in Massachusetts responded to reports of a man in camouflage standing on a lawn holding a bazooka instead found blank. U a kid just doing his own thing. No, landscaper holding a leaf blower Pice arrived expecting to find a lunatic waving around a Bazooka, but instead found a landscaper just doing his job. It's a crazy mistake to make because everybody knows the best way to get rid of leaves in your driveay is to take them out one by one Alzo, how did Rachel do in our quiz? She did the exact same thing that Brian Babylon did. Four right for eight points. Now they're tied with a total of ten each. All right, so how many of that? U Does Tom Papa need to win. Tom